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10 Things I Want to Tell My Kids Before They’re Too Cool to Listen

The two things that occurred to me were a) How the heck do I have a 10-year-old? Is a real adult going to show up and help out with this sometime soon? and b) There are so many things I want to tell her–now–before she is in the onslaught of middle school and too cool to listen. Out of that came the 10 things I’d like to tell her and her younger brother—before I suddenly go from “Mommy who knows everything”, to “Mom who couldn’t possibly understand”.